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Modern Marvels
1993
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Modern Marvels
Technology of Kitty Hawk 10 Season 82 Episode
44 min
1993
8.7
Two brainy bicycle makersโฆa remote North Carolina moonscapeโฆand an impossible dream. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took wing at Kitty Hawk and flewโas none before hadโunraveling a complex problem that had defied historyโs most inventive minds, from Leonard da Vinci to Edison. How did these high-school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio do it? Experts at the controls of full-scale replicas explain how they workedโor didnโtโand historians recount the brothersโ heated arguments.
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